Having passed my allotted three score and ten, I realise that I have
spent too much time watching movies. I can only hope that come judgment
a merciful Lord will forgive my frivolous wasted hours.

My excuse
is that cinema has been the major literary form of my time, a powerful
influence on the ideas, attitudes, values, and behaviour of a great
many people. In early days that role was filled by the Bible and the
classics. The 19th century was largely dominated by the novel, and for
most of the 20th century it was the movies.

By default a citizen of the United States, I can only feel shame at
the condition American film has reached in the 21st century—pornography,
nihilistic violence, filthy-mouthedness, imitativeness, moral
depravity, and just plain tackiness. American film is no longer
literature unless comic books qualify as literature. Today’s movie
industry is only surpassed in evil influence by its bastard offspring,
television. The shame is especially acute when I realize that other
countries have maintained some literary and artistic standards in their
cinema—Britain, France, Italy, Norway, Poland, Russia, Australia, Japan,
and even Iran, a country which our late-Empire American
megalomaniacs want to destroy. (Old men are irascible. I generalise
too sweepingly about American movies. There are still good ones being
produced by good people who have at least one foot out of the Hollywood
mainstream.)

Despite all efforts by the MSM, by virtually all other establishment powers, and by all the Armageddon types, Great Britain and the UK have walked back their marriage to the EU. This is the peaceful version of what the South tried to accomplish in 1861. We were denied our wish for self-government, first expressed in Magna Carta, and the results have been nothing short of catastrophic for the entire world ever since.

Proponents of collectivists government would scorn me, but so what ?

Government with the consent of the governed took a giant step forward in BREXIT. May lady liberty take many more steps, and not wait too long.

Lastly, as Jackie Gleason used to say, “How sweet it is !” The BREXIT vote, 150 years later and on a global scale, vindicated Jefferson Davis when he said, “I am quite sure that the issues for which we contend will reassert themselves in future generations…”. The efforts to suppress this vindication are seen all around us, from the denigration of southerners, to the disregard for our traditions, our monuments, and especially in the vitriolic attacks on the Confederate Battle Flag and its praiseworthy supporters, the Virginia Flaggers.

BREXIT blows it all out of the water !

This is not the end of the conflict, but it may be the end of the beginning which started at Runny Meade, stepped forward at Yorktown, was temporarily crushed at Appomattox, but has now gathered up its skirts once again and stood tall at BREXIT.

I cannot believe (yes I really can !) that the headlines on our papers are not as bold as they were in declaring VE and VJ Days.

Much is being made of the fact that George Will recently announced
that he has left the Republican Party because of the nomination of
Donald Trump. My initial reaction, and the reaction of many others
judging by the responses I have seen, is "Good riddance." I have made my feeling about Mr. Will known in the past.

That said, I think it is important to clear up a common
misperception. I have seen a lot of people describe Will as a neocon. He
is not. The late conservative columnist Sam Francis pegged Will in a
1986 Modern Age article that he wrote in response to Will’s much discussed at the time book, Statecraft as Soulcraft. The article was previously only available as a PDF of the original Modern Age article and was difficult to read. RadixJournal has recently made it available in article form. It is well worth a read. The concluding paragraph sums up Francis’s case well.

“Although Will is sometimes called a “neo-conservative,” he is not
one. Neoconservatives typically derive more or less conservative policy
positions from essentially liberal premises. Will in fact does the
opposite: he derives from more or less unexceptionable premises of
classical conservatism policy positions that are often congruent with
the current liberal agenda. It is because he accepts, and wants to be
accepted by, the “achievements” of modem liberalism that he ignores or
sneers at the serious conservative thinkers and leaders of our time who
have sought to break liberal idols and that he voices no criticism of
the powers that support liberalism. It is therefore not surprising that
his commentary is welcomed in and rewarded by liberal power centers.
They have little to fear from him and his ideas and much to gain if his
version of “conservatism” should gain currency. He enjoys every prospect
of a bright future in their company.”

Address delivered to the graduates of the South Carolina College, December 1821.

Gentlemen,

YOU are now about to quit the precincts of the
College, and to enter upon the commerce of the world. Your education is
supposed to be finished; in reality it is about to commence. The roads
that lead to knowledge useful and ornamental, have been pointed out to
you; but we can only put you on the path: we have done so; and you must
now pursue it for yourselves.

Before you leave this institution finally, it
becomes my duty in compliance with established custom, to offer you a
few words of parting advice; which I shall do with great plainness and
sincerity, leaving the present and future’ effect of them, to depend on
their intrinsic value. I am perfectly aware, that some of the opinions I
am about to deliver, will by no means meet your cordial approbation: be
it so: I am only solicitous to give you fairly and honestly the
practical result of my own observation and long experience: the time
was, when I thought as I presume you think now: the time will probably
arrive, when you also will adopt the sentiments I am about to deliver.

And first, it is usual to exhort you strenuously,
to cultivate the religious part of your education, and to bear in
constant remembrance the obligations you are under, and the duties you
owe to Almighty God, your creator, preserver, and benefactor.

Maria Bartiromo: The other news headline this past
week was obviously the Supreme Court in a split decision essentially
knocking down the president’s immigration reform which was done by
executive action. Your thoughts on that.

Stephen Miller: Well, the fact that it was a 4-4
split underscores really what is at stake for America in the November
election. That will be eventually or could be relitigated and you could
see a new effort to come up with a different result. What happened was
they kicked it back down and they upheld the circuit court ruling as a
result of that decision. If you get a fifth justice on there
that Hillary Clinton appoints they could rule in favor of the
president’s actions which would mean that any president now or in the
future could unilaterally suspend all immigration rules on a whim and
effectively you would have no borders in America.

BS releases 2016 polls from battleground states like Florida,
Colorado, and Wisconsin, showing that a significant number of voters are
sympathetic to messages similar to the successful “Brexit” campaign in
the UK’s EU Referendum.

Battleground states are called battlegrounds for a reason: They’re often close, and 2016 looks like no exception.

Hillary Clinton holds narrow leads over Donald Trump across a number
of key states of Florida (up three points, 44 to 41 percent); Colorado
(Clinton 40 percent, Trump 39 percent); Wisconsin (Clinton up 41 percent
to 36 percent) and North Carolina, which has flipped back and forth
between the parties in the last two elections, where it’s Clinton 44
percent and Trump 42 percent.

Via comment by Anonymous on My Family Fled Communism. Stop Pushing Soviet-Styl.."This pic is the way it use to be and the way it is suppose to be. The communist resurrection of today would make Stalin proud. We don't need the gov as much as they need us. I don't know how or when the normal way of life disappeared but I know we are being attacked for our traditional values."

Cody Wilson’s Ghost Gunner milling machine makes the most crucial element of an assault rifle. It costs just $1,500 and there’s a waiting list to get it.

Defense Distributed is most famous for the Liberator, the world’s first
design code that can be fed into a 3D printer to create a complete,
working gun. After Wilson released the code online in 2013, it was
downloaded more than 100,000 times around the world. Then the Department
of State ordered Wilson to remove the files. Posting the blueprint for
an American audience is legal, but according to the State Department,
because the web is global, he may have violated weapons-export
regulations.

The Liberator attracted a fusillade of press coverage and
political backlash and landed Wilson on Wired’s list of “the most dangerous people on the internet.”

Considered one of Wilmington, North Carolina’s antebellum architectural treasures, the Dr. John D. Bellamy mansion was seized by Northern General Joseph R. Hawley in February 1865 for use as his headquarters while occupying the city — ironically, Hawley was a native North Carolinian. Bellamy’s daughter Ellen was a young girl at the time and later recalled vivid memories of the enemy invasion.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide

Northern Vandals Liberate Wilmington Furniture

“The Federal troops captured Wilmington on February 21, 1865; they took possession of our home, which we had temporarily vacated, and it remained General Hawley Headquarters a long time, even after Lee’s surrender. It was very galling . . .”

[Mother] came up to own dear house, accompanied by a friendly neighbor . . . who was related to General Hawley, and had offered to introduce her. It was most humiliating, and trying, to be entertained by Mrs. Hawley, in her own parlor. Mrs. Hawley showed her raising by “hawking and spitting” in the fire, a most unlady-like act. During the call she offered Mother some figs (from Mother’s own tree) which Aunt Sarah had picked — our own old cook, who had been left there in charge of the premises.

My father made several trips to . . . Washington City before they would grant him his “Pardon.” For what? For being a Southern Gentlemen, a Rebel, and a large Slave Owner! The slaves he had inherited from his father, and which he considered a sacred trust. Being a physician, he guarded their health, kept a faithful overseer to look after them (his home being a regular drug store), and employed a Methodist minister, Rev. Mr. Turrentine, by the year, to look after their spiritual welfare.

Although the war was practically over seven months, we did not get possession of our home ‘till September. [T]he beautiful white marble mantles in the two parlors were so caked with tobacco spit and garbs of chewed tobacco, they were cleaned with great difficulty; indeed, the white marble hearths are still stained . . . No furniture had been left in the parlors . . . On leaving here, the Yankees gave [the] furniture to a servant . . .” In our sitting room, our large mahogany bookcase was left, as it was too bulky for them to carry off; but from its drawers numerous things were taken, among them an autograph album belonging to me brother Marsden.

A number of years later, when my brother John was in Washington as a member of Congress, this same Hawley, then a senator from Illinois, told him of the album “coming into his possession” when he occupied our house, and said he would restore it to him. However, he took care not to do it, although repeatedly reminded.”

The UNC Chapel Hill guide, published on Thursday, covers a wide range
of menacing microaggressions — which are everyday words that radical
leftists have decided to be angry or frustrated about.

Christmas vacations are a microagression, the public university
pontificates, because “academic calendars and encouraged vacations”
which “are organized around major religious observances” centralize “the
Christian faith” and diminish “non-Christian spiritual rituals and
observances.”

Oxford's Middle East Centre "has received substantial sums of money from
sources in the Middle East. The way in which this money has been used
means there is a clear risk that donors will seek to influence the
output and activities of the MEC. -- Robin Simcox, A Degree of Influence
More @ The Gatestone Institute

The tendency of modern
liberals to wring apologies out of governments for the actions of their
ancestors, from the slave trade to Orientalist depictions of the peoples
of Islam, is a pointless attempt to re-write history. There are, of
course, no calls for Muslim governments to apologize for anything from
their slave trade to the early Arab conquests.

"The ethics of establishing a campus in an authoritarian country
are murky, especially when it inhibits free expression." -- Professor
Stephen F. Eisenman, Northwestern University (which has a branch in
Qatar)

Oxford and Cambridge, have accepted more than 233.5 million
pounds sterling from Saudi and Muslim sources since 1995 -- the largest
source of external funding to UK universities.

"Several agreements made between the MEC [Oxford's Middle East
Centre] and donors appear to indicate that funders have sought to
influence the centre's output and activities." -- Robin Simcox, A Degree of Influence, 2009, p.35

One of those "dilemmas" is the influence by teachers across the
United States on impressionable students who organize Israel Apartheid
Weeks. They join with assorted anti-Semitic demonstrators, condemn
Israel for every sin under the sun, and use intimidation against Jewish
and Zionist colleagues, but are never told any historical, legal, or
political facts by their equally biased faculties.

Until just a few
months ago, I was one of those red, white, and blue optimists who
firmly believed that the United States could survive damage done by
whatever idiots an apathetic electorate put in charge. I terribly
underestimated two things: the Democrats’ contempt for the Constitution
and the Republicans’ commitment to losing, even when they win.

Now
that we’re about three quarters through an elaborate falling dominoes
design that will probably end up looking like a hammer and sickle, all I
have to say is that you should enjoy the last few months of America
because there is one thing of which I am now certain: the republic as we
have enjoyed it will cease to exist after the next election.

Via John"Trump is like a political surgeon removing the cancer of RINOsis from the body of the GOP. Now, Will can go hang out with Kristol, Romney, Bush, Paul 'Ryno,' and the rest of the RINO herd. This nation deserves at least one party that reflects the 'will' of some of its citizens and not two parties which reflect the will of none but corporatist globalists seeking to assemble a brave new world which they can dominate in perpetuity. Is Trump a political messiah? No, of course not. He is a tool. He is a sort of political can opener; one who can pry the lid off (at least) one of the two corrupt parties that control this nation to the overbearing detriment of the people.

Adios, George.....leave the GOP, join the Hillary campaign."

*******************************

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Conservative columnist George Will said Friday that he's leaving the GOP over Donald Trump's rise to becoming the party's standard bearer.

Will suggested that a Democratic victory in the presidential election
in November would be preferable to Trump winning the White House.

"Make sure he loses," Will told PJ Media, a conservative blog. "Grit their teeth for four years and win the White House."

Remembrance

Execution of Colonel Ho Ngoc CanLast words: "If I won the war, I would not condemn you as you have condemned me.I would not humiliate you as you have humiliated me.I would not ask you questions that you asked me.I fought for the freedom of my people.I have merit and I am not guilty.No one can convict me.History will criticize you as my Communist enemy.You want to kill me, then kill me.Do not blindfold me.Down with the Communists.Long live the Republic of Viet Nam !"

Colonel CraigMandeville:

“They wanted the people to see that he was dead,” said Craig Mandeville, an American adviser to the South Vietnamese army who fought side by side with Can. “He was believed to be some sort of invincible guy. The North Vietnamese thought that, too, and I even thought that when I fought with him.”

“He said, ‘OK, the country’s fallen, but by God we’re still South Vietnamese and we’re free,’ ” Mandeville recalled. “So he went down to Chuong Tien province and rounded up all these soldiers down there to form a Free Vietnam.”

Col. Can didn’t live long after that, but the legacy of his struggle lives on.

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.